Cableless Seismic Acquisition Technology Evaluation and First Full Field Implementation in France and Uganda

The use of cableless recording units for land acquisition has been widely increasing in the last 10 years with almost 900 000 units produced at this time. During recent years Total has been investigating how this new technology could facilitate its land acquisition operations and what are the most appropriate systems. There are more than 10 vendors competing for this market with systems with different functionalities. After a market evaluation and field tests of some systems, Total selected two different systems to acquire its first full-field 3D cableless acquisitions in Uganda and in France. This experience gave very encouraging results in term of potential of this technology to reduce acquisition environmental footprint and recording downtime, manpower and logistics.

The presentation will focus on the evaluation of this technology and the reasons why two cableless systems with very different functionalities were selected to meet the specific constraints of these two surveys.